Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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here the pyramids are. And you can't see any signs of these ancient waterways, but apparently they were massive. So that might be the big explanation of why the pyramids are where they are, because they had massive waterways to transport all the materials and stuff that they needed. Now, isn't that interesting to think that the pyramids were right next to a big tributary of the Nile, and that once…

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icted to, if you can stay off it for 30 days, your dopamine will get back to where you want it. So in other words, if you can keep off something for 30 days, you'll start to not miss it. Now I added my own experience, which is when it comes to food, my experience is it takes about 60 days, because there's not just your body that has to get acclimated to the dopamine but also your brain, because you often have a habit. So you're dealing with an addiction and a habit at the same time. Maybe the dopamine goes back after 30 days, but the brain part where you got to reach for that thing, in my case it was Diet Cokes. You know, your brain just wants to do a Diet Coke after, let's say, after you exercise or something. You know, my normal triggers. So 60 days to get rid of your habits as well as your dopamine deficiency. And that's why when I give diet advice, I give it like a hypnotist, not like a nutritionist.

So what I tell you is don't try to quit the quantity of food you eat at the same time you're trying to give up an addictive food. So for example, you should just try to quit one bad food at a time while not making any changes to the volume you eat. Because if you change the volume you're eating, you've got hunger at the moment you're dealing with. You've got a habit you're dealing with and maybe an addiction. So you've given yourself three problems. You can get rid of one of them by just not being hungry. Eat as much as you want, but make sure that you lose your craving for this one that's extra bad. And then when that craving is gone, two months later you pick another one. Now if you did that every two months for one year, imagine you could reduce these six biggest problem foods without really much of an effort, because you would never be hungry and you

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'd always be eating things you liked all the time. So that's my suggestion: never let yourself be hungry while you're dieting. Just change the mix of things you're eating. All right, but do them one at a time. Don't get rid of all your addictions at the same time. So even getting rid of sugar all at once is tough, but getting rid of that ice cream you eat before you go to sleep, you know, just wor…

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